West Virginia

The purpose of this bill is to require a full adversarial hearing before a court of record before a respondent may be prohibited from possessing any firearm or ammunition, under mandatory provisions in protective order and then only by clear and convincing evidence. The bill also provides for automatic appeal by respondent.

The purpose of this resolution is to propose an amendment to section two, article XII of the Constitution to clarifying the duties and authorities of the West Virginia Board of Education. The amendment is designated "Clarification of West Virginia Board of Education Duties and Authority."

The purpose of this bill is to prohibit municipalities participating in the home rule program from establishing nondiscrimination ordinances that include protected classes in addition to what is designated in state statute.

The purpose of this bill is to establish an additional modification reducing federal adjusted gross income relating to taxes on tips and overtime.

The purpose of this bill is to provide a reduction of the business and occupation tax rate for companies who have 75 percent or more of their workforce as West Virginia residents.

The purpose of this bill is to make classroom sizes equal so that aides can be best utilized and one-on-one time with teachers and students can be maximized without losing the use of an aide.

The purpose of this bill is to terminate the West Virginia Health Care Authority; terminate the authority's certificate of need program; providing the termination of the authority's cooperative agreement review process; provide definitions; establishing when the secretary shall propose a repeal; clarify the transfer of the authority's remaining powers, assets, records, and employees to the Secretary of the Department of Health; clarify the money to be transferred to the general revenue fund; and establish exemptions.

The purpose of this bill is to create the "Sudden Death Reporting and Vaccine Transparency Act." It charges the Chief Medical Examiner with investigating all sudden or unexplained deaths, which are defined as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID); Sudden Death in the Young (SDY); Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome (SADS); or Any unexpected, unattended, or unexplained death of an individual under the age of 30.

The purpose of this bill is to provide a real and personal property tax exemption for residents 65 years or older and clarify who qualifies for the Homestead Act.

The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to control of air pollution from hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal facilities.This section is new; therefore,

The purpose of this bill is to require paper ballots in all elections. The bill prohibits electronic voting. Finally, the bill requires photo identification to vote.

The purpose of this bill is to forbid reselling tickets to events in this state at more than a 3% markup from the face value of the ticket.

The purpose of this bill is to establish maximum salaries of county school superintendents for each of the 55 counties, based on student population of each county.

The purpose of this bill is to increase payment for professional service provided to the West Virginia Birth-to-Three program by therapists and other professionals who are not employed by a state agency by 25 percent.

The purpose of this bill relates generally to persons prohibited from possessing firearms.

The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to emission standards for hazardous air pollutants.

The purpose of this bill is to require the Secretary of State to provide for verification of voter residence.

The purpose of this bill is to establish a minimum salary of $50,000 for teachers and providing at least a $2,000 salary increase for all teachers.

The purpose of this bill is to implement certain ethics reforms at the Public Service Commission of West Virginia. The bill requires financial disclosures made by commission members to be made available online; requires commission members to act in furtherance of the public interest; repeals certain inoperative sections of code; revises ethical criteria for commission membership and employment; and applies the code of judicial ethics to commission members.

The purpose of this bill is to provide that a person engaged in offering for sale, selling, exchanging, or bartering products or commodities produced exclusively on his or her own farm is exempt from obtaining a commercial feed distributor permit.

The purpose of this resolution is to recognize the Holy Bible as foundational text and official book of West Virginia.

The purpose of this bill is to allow a tax credit for the cost of spaying or neutering a dog or cat.